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Because racial groups are significant categories of classification, I choose to capitalize all racial groups, such as “Black” and “White.” In the case of quotations used in the book, racial groups may or may not be capitalized, depending on the theorist’s perspective on capitalization. For further discussion on why to capitalize the names of racial groups, see Race Forward’s “Race Reporting Guide”¹² and the Brookings Institution report “Not Just a Typographical Change: Why Brookings Is Capitalizing Black.”¹³ Regarding the use of “Latino” and “Hispanic,” I follow the author’s use of the term when applicable and otherwise use the term “Latinx.” The use of the “x” at the end signifies the effort to avoid gendering the term.¹⁴